[fandom] Did I really need another one?

[escritoireazul]

Last weekend, I discovered this fun, cheesy show. Via Netflix's Movie Viewer, I watched a few episodes and enjoyed them. Today, I sat down to watch one more, and haven't been able to stop. We're talking hours here, time I should have been packing.

The show? This little thing some of you have probably heard of called Xena: Warrior Princess.

Talk about late to the game.

I'm about to start the season one episode "The Black Wolf" and I have some very general things to say.

Amazons = love
Xena + Gabrielle = love
Cheesy shows + Carla = love

I've not been hit with the desire to write anything (yet, and probably because I have been thinking so much about my femgenficathon story) but I think I'm going to want to read some fic soon.

(I had always intended to watch this show someday, because Victoria Pratt has a small role in it, and I'll watch lots of crappy things for her. House of the Dead 2? Oh yeah. However, I didn't expect to enjoy it so much, but I probably should have known. Women fighting, gods, swords, leather, cheesiness -- why didn't I think I'd love this?)

It does leave me with the urge to watch Cleopatra 2525 again.

ETA: I just found out Jennifer Sky was also in Xena, so that's two of the three from Cleopatra 2525. No wonder I want to watch the two shows together!

Comments

[idyll.livejournal.com]

There's a good chance that Gina Torres is in Xena. I mean, she shows up in Hercules, for certain, and the casts/characters are so incestuous between the two.

Husband and I have been watching various Herc and Xena eps in the last few months via Netflix.

And, oh, Victoria Pratt! She makes me wish my Once a Thief tapes weren't so warped as to be unviewable. *pouts*

[samsom.livejournal.com]

Hi. Passing by via a flist of a friend. *waves*

Xena's an awesome show, you're gonna love it. If you love femmeslash, you're *really* gonna love it. The subtext is one of the best reasons to watch.

And Gina Torres makes three. *g*

[ter369.livejournal.com]

Xena has fantastic parody episodes, as did Hercules. Any time they sing and dance, or are in alternate universese, I watched the ep a couple times in a row.

[the-girl-20.livejournal.com]

I'm always late to the party. However, Xena is one of the few fandoms I actually participated in in 'real time'. It's such a fun show.

Gina Torres does indeed play Cleopatra in the S3 episode 'King of Assassins'. But she's much more interesting in the S4 Hercules ep 'Yes Virginia, there is a Hercules'

(http://pics.livejournal.com/the_girl_20/pic/0010qbzk/)

You're too early on in S1 to appreciate my additions to your notes, but you will:

Ares = Love
Callisto = Love
Aphrodite = Love

[frogfarm]

Welcome to the fold :) And just as I started finally posting my ten-years-in-the-making Xenafic...

[raz0rgirl.livejournal.com]

Oh, I am *so* excited for you.